This BoosterPack™ was designed to operate with the LP-AM243 TI LaunchPad™ kit with Sitara™ AM243x MCU. Together this design implements an eight port IO-Link Master with fast and deterministic timing and independent cycle and bit rate configuration. This design can be used to build a remote IO gateway to connect to OPC UA, Profinet, EtherCAT, or Ethernet IP. The Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) for Sitara ™ Processors based frame handler provides a flexible way of controlling timing and synchronization.
Features
- Eight IO-Link ports with additional digital inputs
- Supports IO-Link transmission rates COM1, COM2, and COM3 and 400-µs cycle time
- Can provide 500-mA of current per port with overcurrent protection and limiting on all ports
- PRU frame handler enables flexible timing
- This BoosterPack contains all the analog circuitry needed to create an eight port IO-Link Master when combined with the LP-AM243 LaunchPad containing the processor and framehandler.